"We Deserve This Too": How These Black Women Rebranded Luxury Cruising to Attract Black Travelers

Jasmine Douse, the creator of the Soulful Experience and Crystal August - the only Cruise Manager who is a woman of color in luxury travel - talked to us about how they’re redefining luxury experience for Black travelers. In our latest conversation, they open up about what it took to bring this vision to life, how they navigated skepticism from an industry that wasn't built with us in mind, and why getting on that ship was, for many passengers, a first.